AUSTRIA: Italy Baited

The Austrian Parliament resounded last week
with furious criticisms of the Italian Administration of Lower Tyrol.
This province, which Italians call the Higher Adige, was transferred by
post-War treaties from Austria-Hungary to Italy. Last week in the
Austrian Parliament deputies Kold and Abrams of Higher Tyrol, which is
still Austrian, luridly described the sufferings of Lower Tyrolese
under Il Duce's regime of impetuous Italianization.

Cried Deputy Abrams "beautiful women are incarcerated without cause in
the prisons [of Lower Tyrol] and are released only when they have
surrendered their chastity to brutal [Italian] jailers!" Deputy Kold
revamped in detail the familiar fact...